Skills and Assessment Expert
Kristin Lansing is a skills and assessment expert with more than 15 years of of innovation in the measurement of human skills and mindsets across organizations including OECD/PISA, ACT, and the United Nations ecosystem. Her work focuses on redefining how critical thinking, creative thinking, and collaboration are defined, understood, and measured, integrating learning science, evidence mining, stealth assessment, evidence fusion, and multi‑evidence models to make complex human skills more transparent, scalable, and equitable in practice.
Founder and Director of NeoWise
As Founder and Director of NeoWise, she partners with institutions, assessment platforms, and programs to demystify and de‑risk the inclusion of human skills by uncovering "hidden in plain sight" evidence in existing standards, curriculum, and assessments rather than relying on wholesale redesign or new platforms. Her work emphasizes innovative approaches to the future of assessment in the age of AI, combining expert‑driven, AI‑supported measurement models with fine‑grained skill frameworks and performance descriptors that help organizations see more in the data they already collect.
Author, Researcher, and Lifelong Learner
Kristin is the author of the forthcoming book You, Optimized: How to Unlock Your Human Skills in the Age of AI, a practical guide to upgrading the mindsets and skills that make people irreplaceable by helping them know, grow, and show their human capabilities in an AI‑intensive world. Her scholarship includes peer‑reviewed research on creative thinking, cross‑cutting capabilities, collaborative problem solving, and cognitive diagnostic modeling for human skills, alongside a forthcoming chapter on "Human Spark: Critical and Creative Thinking in the Age of AI." As a dedicated lifelong learner, she is completing a PhD in Child Development and Education at the University of Amsterdam, where her work bridges psychometrics, learning sciences, and AI‑enabled assessment design to advance more trustworthy, human‑centered measurement of complex skills.
Thought Leadership
Recent Publications and Presentations
Recent Publications and Presentations
You, Optimized: How to Unlock Your Human Skills in the Age of AI. (in press, Spring 2027 - Fast Company Press)
Lansing, K. (2026, in press) Human Spark: Critical and Creative Thinking in the Age of AI. In A.A. von Davier & D. Yan (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications in Educational Learning and Assessment (pp. tbd). Springer.
Lansing, K., van Schijndel, T., Steedle, J., de la Torre, J., van der Ark, A., & von Davier, A. (2025, July). Cognitive diagnostic models for measuring 21st‑century skills. Paper (in press) presented at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS)
Lansing, K., & Jaeger, G. (2025, May). Thinking outside of the (black) box for scoring creative thinking assessments. Paper presented at the Creativity Conference at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR.
Lansing, K., & Jaeger, G. (2025, May). Are DT tasks good at measuring Creative Thinking? Imma say 'no'. Paper presented at the Creativity Conference at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, United States.
Lansing-Stoeffler, K., & Daley, N. (2023). Navigating the Spectrum of Conventionality: Toward a New Model of Creative Thinking. Journal of Intelligence, 11(2), 21.
Lansing-Stoeffler, K., & Daley, N. (2022). Cross-Cutting Capabilities: Transferable Skills for the 21st Century. ACT Research Report. 2022-07. ACT, Inc.
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., & Way, J. (2022). When actions speak louder than words: Stealth assessment of social and emotional skills. In Assessing Competencies for Social and Emotional Learning (pp. 135-150). Routledge.
Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K., ., & Simmering, V (2020). Imagine: Design for Creative Thinking, Learning, and Assessment in Schools. Journal of Intelligence., 8(2), 16.
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., Bolsinova, M., & von Davier, A. A. (2019). Gamified Performance Assessment of Collaborative Problem Solving Skills. Computers in Human Behavior.
Rosen, Y., Wolf, I., & Stoeffler, K. (2019). Fostering collaborative problem solving skills in science: The Animalia project. Computers in Human Behavior.
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y. (2019, September). PISA 2021 and Beyond: Design and Development of Innovative Learning and Assessment Solutions for Creative Thinking. International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA), Baku, Azerbaijan.
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y. (2019, September). PISA 2021 and Beyond: Design and Development of Innovative Assessments at Scale. Workshop presented at the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA), Baku, Azerbaijan.
Burrus, J., Way, J. D., Bobek, B. L., Stoeffler, K., & O'Connor, R. (2020). The ACT Holistic Framework of Education and Workplace Success. In M. E. Oliveri & C. Wendler (Eds.) Higher Education Admission Practices: An International Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ACT (2019).
PISA 2021 Creative Thinking Validation Study Research Report. ACT. IA: Iowa City.
Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K. & Piancentini, M. (2019) Creative Thinking Framework Overview. PISA 2021 Meeting of New National Project Managers. Rockville, Maryland
Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K. & Piancentini, M. (2019) Creative Thinking Framework Overview . PISA 2021 First Meeting of National Project Managers. Vienna, Austria
Maris, G., Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K. & Piancentini, M. (2019) Field Trial Creative Thinking Instrument Overview PISA 2021 First Meeting of National Project Managers. Vienna, Austria
Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K. (2019). Developing Scalable Conversational Assessments for Collaborative Problem Solving. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting (NCME), Toronto , CA
Bourgault-Bouthillier, I., Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., & Von Davier, A. (2019). Using Technology-Rich Environments to Explore Gender Differences During Collaboration. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting (NCME), Toronto, CA
Zhang, L., Li, B., Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K., & Yu, S. (2019, March). Innovative problem solving assessment with learning analytics. Workshop presented at the Ninth International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference. Tempe, Arizona. Conference Presentation.
Rosen, Y., Stoeffler, K., & Waiyavutti, C. (2018). PISA 2021 Creative Thinking Cognitive Lab Research Report. ACT. IA: Iowa City. Design and Development of Technology-Enhanced Assessments ∙ Invited Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ∙ 2019
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., Bolsinova, M., & von Davier, A. A. (2018, September). Increasing measurement accuracy of collaborative problem solving by incorporating telemetry data. Presented at the 51st Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) in Frankfurt, Germany
von Davier, A. A, & Stoeffler, K., (2018, July). Assessment of Collaborative Problem Solving Skills: An Overview. Workshop presented at the 2018 International Testing Conference in Montreal, Canada
Stoeffler, K., Burrus, J., Way, J., Bobek, B., O'Connor, R., (2018, July). A Holistic Framework of Education and Workplace Success. Presented at the 2018 International Testing Conference in Montreal, Canada
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., Bolsinova, M., Way, J., Chopade, P., & von Davier, A. A. (2018, July). Increasing measurement accuracy of collaborative problem solving by incorporating telemetry data. Presented at the 2018 International Testing Conference in Montreal, Canada
Stoeffler, K., Greiff, S., Rosen, Y., von Davier, (2018, June). Toward a New Model of Collaborative Problem Solving Definition and Assessment. Presented at the Doctoral Consortium for the 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences in London, UK
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., Bolsinova, M., & von Davier, A. A. (2018, June). Gamified Assessment of Collaborative Skills with Chatbots. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 343-347). Springer, Cham.
Chopade, P., Stoeffler, K., Khan, S. M., Rosen, Y., Swartz, S., & von Davier, A. (2018, June). Human-Agent Assessment: Interaction and Sub-skills Scoring for Collaborative Problem Solving. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 52-57). Springer, Cham.
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., Bolsinova, M., & von Davier, A. A. (2018, April). Exploring the Measurement of Collaborative Problem Solving Using a Human-Agent Educational Game. Poster presented at the NCME 2018 Annual Conference in New York City, NY.
Stoeffler, K., Rosen, Y., von Davier, A. A., Paek, P., (2017, September). Game-based Classroom Assessment of Collaborative Problem Solving. Poster presented at the NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment and Large-Scale Psychometrics: The Twain Shall Meet Conference in Kansas City, KS.
Invited Contributor ∙ Annual Colloquium of Assessment and Measurement Professionals, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment), held May 24-25, 2017, Sanibel Island, FL.
Kristin Stoeffler, Yigal Rosen, Amit Agrawal, Alina A. von Davier (2017, March). Exploring the Measurement of Collaborative Problem Solving Using a Human-Agent Educational Game. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge to be held in Vancouver, Canada, March 13-17 201
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